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...this dynamite drive through the Iraq occupation. (Make that war.) Except for a few digressive scenes - a solo sortie of personal vengeance, a conversation about what it all means - that could easily be cut from the 2 hr. 11 min. running time, The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. Through sturdy imagery and violent action, it says that even Hell needs heroes...
...BELVEDERE The hip-hop star's vodka of choice: both Jay-Z and Missy Elliott like to big up this silky Polish brew. Made from a single type of grain - Dankowskie gold rye - and water from the distillery's own wells, this slightly sweet spirit makes a perfect vodka martini. ($50; www.belvedere-vodka.com...
...That job fell to his wife, First Lady Laura Bush, who seemed to be bristling under that perfect demeanor at the dissing of her man. Offering "a little straight talk" on the Bush record, she extolled education reform ("test scores for minority students are at the highest they?ve ever been"); the appointment of conservatives John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court; the "50 million people...living in freedom" in Afghanistan and Iraq. "You might call that change you can really believe in," she said, in a sly swiping of Obama's slogan...
...describe the research you did? You mentioned The Perfect Wife...
...Civil War, there was a running joke about how most soldiers were old enough to shoot, but too young to vote," Cannon said. "That sentiment remained alive for another century before the Vietnam War, an unpopular and unsuccessful war that used young draftees as soldiers, created the perfect storm for the 26th Amendment...